General Contractor Not Responsible for Worker's Death

A general contractor is not responsible for the fatal injury of a subcontractor's employee, which arose from actions by the worker that the general contractor could not have foreseen, the North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled.Case: Pike v. D.A. Fiore Construction Services, Inc., COA09-520, published, 12/08/2009.Facts: James Kevin Pike was employed as a carpenter for B.G. Construction, which held a framing subcontractor concession on a residential project for which D.A. Fiore Construction Services was the general contractor.Pike was cutting sheets of plywood for a roof on March 16, 2006, an...